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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
3
Freddy expresses a wish to become an after dinner speaker rather than a great orator. His father notes the drive for social distinction. Freddy emphasizes his goal to attend dinners for social access rather than world impact.
Bishop Pascal of Prince Albert recounts a tale from Esquimos at Reindeer Lake suggesting a discarded "white house" from the sky once housed white men who killed caribou and may explain explorer Andre's disappearance after a balloon trip from Spitzbergen twelve years ago. Father Turquotille will travel again to seek details.
A British Whig editorial warns that cement mergers illustrate how consolidation raises overall costs. It notes savings for coal and iron firms but higher cement prices, benefiting stockholders while risking higher charges to the public as trusts spread across groceries fuel leather cement and plumbing supplies.
The New York Herald warns that Canada building a navy could risk peace with the United States through entanglements with the Anglo Japanese alliance. If Japan and the US clash, Canada might align with Britain to oppose the US, the St John Sun reports.
In a Georgian Bay village school children stage Barring Out Day a nearly extinct custom from Scottish settlers. Big boys barricade the room before dawn and the teacher exits to buy candies as students seize control. The prank ends with a holiday and a messy but cheerful retreat.
Hangman Radcliffe visits a Montreal newspaper office to see a police reporter. Upon exiting the elevator reporters and subscribers line up to greet him while the sporting editor leads, drawing comments about his brutal face from a country subscriber.
The Winnipeg Tribune argues the British Government bears no duty to withhold judgment. It says if invited by the Dominion Government to comment before action, a response would follow. It questions whether Imperial authorities should declare that the Canadian Parliament blundered.
The Windsor Record notes the Liberal return was expected and that McBride, though seen by critics as weak or corrupt with corporations, appears to arouse provincial imagination. The electorate’s choice remains their own business.
Toronto engineers Frank Barber and Clarence R. Young validate reinforced concrete bridge theory on the Etobicoke River crossing between York and Peel. After months of planning the 80 foot span supports a 167 head of cattle. the cost runs just under $4,000.
An evang elist Ben Allen the blind singer in Toronto attracts a generous donor described as a stout miner type. He contributes increasingly from money to a final orange in the hat cup after several hymns illustrating a wandering boy's appeal. The scene ends with the donor leaving.
The Hon Mrs Howard daughter of Lord Strathcona and heir to the title. She married Dr J B Howard in Montreal and has three sons and a daughter. Her daughter and her eldest brother Donald have twice visited Canada with Lord Strathcona to Quebec for the Tercentenary. Mrs Howard enjoys outdoor life and tennis and spends much time with her parents at their English and Scotch homes. She helped host at Knebworth Park during Lord Lyttons tenancy, leaving fond memories for Canadians of that hospitable home.
James Pickard a retired butcher of Galt received a sizable conscience money in an envelope with a Toronto postmark. The note says it settles an account debt contracted thirty years ago with interest.
The Halifax Herald argues that with Great Britain ruling the seas, global peace and security prevail, while if Germany controlled the seas no nation would be safe or secure.
A visitor at a Sunday school used the Elisha story to warn children about mocking prophets. A young girl asked what the tale showed and answered it shows how many children two bears can hold, eliciting humor in the front row.
The advertisement claims the syrup targets causes of illness rather than effects. It presents Bickles Anti-Consumptive Syrup as the result of patient study and says it is most effective at the first signs of a cold, arresting development and speeding healing of affected parts until the ailment disappears.
A quotation notes a journalist well regarded as a first class newspaper man who produced two editorials during the height of an end of the world scare one for publication if it occurred and one if it did not credited to Puck.
A Windsor Ontario based notice offers free home treatment for bed-wetting and related urine issues. Mrs M Summers provides full instructions by mail to mothers, claiming the method helps children and adults, with no payment required. The piece also includes a humorous domestic exchange about sewing a button and a typewriter wife.
An ad promotes Marine Eye Remedy from Toronto claiming relief for red watery eyes. A geography teacher prompts naming principal zones, and a bright student answers with a joke about masculine and feminine zones, temperature and frigid.
A series of testimonials across Halifax Sussex and Markham claim relief from rheumatic gout acute bronchitis and acute rheumatism after using Minard’s Liniment. Names include Andrew King Lt Col OC Crewe Read and C.8 Billing.
A brief dialogue piece quotes Crawford asking why his wife wants to move and Crabshaw replying she found money in two closets. The Milwaukee Journal wittily adds that no operation is needed if Holloway's Corn Cure is used, noting money as the driving force behind the idea.
A Philadelphia Bulletin fragment notes a scene where a brave remark sparks a witty exchange. The grizzled bachelor and a young woman debate Mr. Rakely with hints of paternal concern and a lingering smell of alcohol on his breath.
In Newfoundland forests the paper trade shapes a humane view of harvesting. The woodman prunes for future growth, sparing vitality while removing dead wood and selecting large trees. The landscape reveals patterns of gold and green as birch nurses conifers, with fir and pine rising after thirty years under birch shade.
Toronto police officers famed for magnanimity show compassion in the Morality Court case. A Ward couple convicted of disrupting public order receive sixty day jail terms. The husband sobs in the dock, then is gently urged to cry through the hallway by a sympathetic officer.
The Wheat Outlook notes that combined crops from Canada the United States France Hungary Russia and Roumania total about 300 million bushels an increase of one sixth from last year. Europe’s depleted stores may push demand to Canada in coming months supporting Canadian wheat prices over the next year.
A poor Irish lawyer brags about his new Dublin house to Chief Justice Whiteside. The judge replies that the man has indeed earned it. A second piece notes Lifebuoy Soap as refreshing for bath or toilet and praises its cleansing power. A quip about paying servants by the hour follows.
In a domestic exchange the Hollonut couple debate a newspaper item about a marathon runner in New York. Mrs Hollonut insists a sponge was swallowed. Mr Hollosut questions the wording and wonders how he could expel it without swallowing.
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